Georgina Boswell

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“Their fruits like honey to the throat
But poison in the blood”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

“My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)